Masterpiece Soundwave to be released in Australia in July

[Bidoofdude]

That would involve a mould change which I doubt they would do. It's more than likely that it will come with a yellow visor IMO.

I thought they weren't for cartoon accuracy with most releases?
I can't see it happening really but each to their own, I guess.

[Lint]

I thought they weren't for cartoon accuracy with most releases?
I can't see it happening really but each to their own, I guess.

Hasbro's MP's have been very geared towards toy-accuracy rather than cartoon accuracy but I believe they will follow cartoon accuracy for the optics like they have done with all(?) their MP releases thus far.

[SkyWarp91]

Just got mine. The box is jsut pure sexiness. Not going to liberate him till his other tapes come out

[GoktimusPrime]

Just got mine. The box is jsut pure sexiness. Not going to liberate him till his other tapes come out

That's what Laserbeak's for dude.

[SkyWarp91]

That's what Laserbeak's for dude.

I know but I want the others too beforehand.

[Paulbot]

Got Soundwave yesterday but going to wait for the Hasbro version to come out before I open it. If I like the Hasbro version better I'll just sell my MISB Japanese version. No time to play with it at the moment anyway so it's just in my growing pile of unopened TFs.

[griffin]

Colours on Skywarp were slightly different, but noticeable when next to each other.

The purple plastic parts are darker on the JP version, and it has a couple silver paint apps on the arms. The Hasbro version has red paint on the air intakes beside the robot head, to match the Gen1 toy.
The wing stripes are different - two purple stripes on the Hasbr version, but only one on the JP version.
The most noticeable difference though is in Jet mode, with the tail fins being purple plastic with the Hasbro version, while the JP version has black plastic.
At least the two Thundercrackers and white Starscreams were different moulds, to distinguish between the Hasbro and JP versions.

Photo of the differences (Hasbro MP on the left - JP MP on the right)

[Trent]

So, according to this post, the Hasbro MP SW will come with 5 cassettes and Frenzy/Rumble will have their ground pounders.

That'll be the on I pick up then. Hope the price and colour scheme are reasonable.

Photo of the differences (Hasbro MP on the left - JP MP on the right)

*snippeteh*

Cheers Griffman

[doublespy]

just...just AWESOME
at $150 with 5 cassettes, this will probably sell out faster than MP10!!

[Bidoofdude]

Hell! I was happy paying for one or two cassettes with him! That's a steal!